How a Sculptor Made an Art of Documenting Her Life
The artist Anne Truitt began keeping a journal in 1974, at fifty-three, after retrospectives of her work at the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art left her feeling
Towards a New Commons, Away from Silver Bullets
Reset: Towards a New Commons, the most recent exhibition at New York’s Center for Architecture (CfA), opened at a moment when the idea of a unified public in the United
Remembering Dean Emeritus Richard Bender
With immense sadness, the College of Environmental Design announces the passing of Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Richard Bender.
Windows of the mind: early Dora Maar images – in pictures
A new exhibition featuring 1930s works from the French artist anticipates her foray into surrealism – and proves her status as a key figure of modernism.
Leslie Allen Jordan (1955-2022)
I don’t follow celebrity culture very much. We stream British mysteries and police procedurals, not rom coms or sit coms. But Lesle Allen Jordan reached through my computer screen and
Sarasota Modern: Paul Rudolph and beyond
Modernism celebrations and conferences are becoming more numerous.
Ernest and Esther Born
Born to Design: A couple from the San Francisco Bay Area advanced the cause of modernism using architectural and graphic expertise.
Sea Ranch is 50: Kenneth Caldwell looks at the history and future of the iconic California site
When you hit middle age, it’s time for another checkup, and if you are a group of affluent nature-loving Northern Californian neighbors, perhaps a check-in.
Review > Pure Modernism
Bay Area architect and author Pierluigi Serraino provided several significant insights about architecture and culture in his book NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism.
Tauba Auerbach (Interview)
I went to visit Tauba Auerbach at her studio in Brooklyn. A slight rain was falling, and I had no idea where I was.
Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress
His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks — some fresh from the studio — and celebrated spiral.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Isca Greenfield-Sanders uses discarded slides as her source imagery. They are the evidence of stories, now forgotten, but given another life through her art.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Gary Simmons
Gary Simmons smears, exquisitely. The magic is in the moment that you can’t quite get back.
Challenging Modernism
James Burnett’s desert landscaping and oasis-like water features harmonize seamlessly with Frederick Fisher’s new visitors center.The Architect’s Newspaper, March 28, 2012
Good Deeds: Multi-Service Center South, St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco
Q&A with Susie Jue, vice president of philanthropy for IIDA NC, about the Chapter’s pro bono project to renovate the city’s largest homeless shelter.
Working in San Francisco & Hawaii: An Interview with Craig Steely
Earlier this year I went to the big island of Hawaii to see the lava landscape and the houses that San Francisco and Hawaii based architect, Craig Steely has put
Saving Difference
“Preservation on the Edge,” organized by the California Preservation Foundation (CPF) was an apt theme for the recent California Preservation Conference held in Santa Monica.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Squeak Carnwath
Squeak Carnwath was one of the first artists to work with Paulson Bott Press and has made over twenty editions.
Talking Gordon Drake
William Stout Publishers recently reissued California Houses of Gordon Drake by Douglas Baylis and Joan Parry, with a new preface by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and a new introduction by
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Ross Bleckner
Ross Bleckner’s work moves between representational and abstract, sometimes in the same piece.
Kenneth Caldwell Interviews Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall employs the conventions of European painting to cast a wide net of political and cultural commentary.
Building Christ the Light: a Conversation with Craig Hartman & Father Paul
The new Cathedral of Christ the Light on the shores of Oakland’s Lake Merritt has been widely published.
New York Times Style – The Greats
In our 2022 Greats issue, out Oct. 16, T celebrates four inimitable artists across music, film, fashion design and sculpture whose talents — and ability to transcend the expectations of